Socratic Monologue
From the monthly archives: December 2004
Whew – what a year. I’ll refrain from my own personal observations of the passing year, and give this space for a few words from Stephen:
The events of this past year and especially of this past week have shown us not only how fragile is our existence on this planet, but also how [...]Alan Levine has a post on his blog that describes how he is publishing updates on Feed2JS using MovableType. If you haven’t heard about Feed2JS, I suggest you go check it out – it is one of the coolest little tools around. Basically, it is a set of PHP scripts which allow anyone [...]
I’m spending a couple of days off-line for the holidays. If you are celebrating any kind of holiday at this time of year, I hope its a good one. Even if you don’t celebrate, I hope you are having a good time!
And now, a picture of my daughter serenading the Xmas tree:
In the iPodder-developer Yahoo group, Julian Bond posted the following method for recording Skype calls using Audacity under Windows.
Disclaimer – I haven’t tried this yet (I’m at school, so I’ll have to wait until I get home), but I wanted to post this information since I have noticed a number of bloggers (most [...]
Via Slashdot, I see that The Definitive Guide to Plone is available online. Plone is a really solid, open source content management system, built on top of the Zope content management framework (and as an added bonus, its written in Python!). I’ve noticed a few educational technology blogs, notably that of Continue Reading →
Wow – I just checked the logs for the site, and I am amazed at the way that podcast #3 is skewing the stats for the site. Since early Sunday morhing when I uploaded the podcast, it has been downloaded 69 times. Consequently, Sunday was my biggest single day of bandwidth usage since the [...]
I’m just uploading the latest stigmergicweb podcast, which is mostly a stream of consciousness rample about some ideas for my presentation at the AMTEC conference in Calgary next May. Leave a comment if you will also be at the conference.
I also mention Mary Dykes new blog, U of S Library Instruction [...]
Mary Dykes from the University of Saskatchewan library has just started up a new blog – UofS Library Instruction News. I am glad to hear this – I have been bugging Mary for a little while that she should be blogging. Now I can turn my attention to others who need to be in [...]
Its nice to see that CBC news now has RSS feed (cbc.ca – RSS Feeds). When I explain to colleagues or anyone why they would want to use an RSS aggregator, this will be my first example.
After reading the revealing playlists shown by Alec “New Edition” Couros and D’Arcy Norman, I thought I’d join in the fun. Here’s what turned up when I spun the wheel!
Original Sin by INXS Foxy Lady by Harry Manx – ubercool cover of Jimi’s hit The Sweater Song by Weezer Suite 4 (Sarabande) [...]Your thoughtful responses
Me tweeting
- My grade 9 students are learning/practicing photographic composition. See their work at http://t.co/c2lkNTDv
- @shareski I think you owe him for all the pictures of his kids you put in them.
- @shareski I thought design mattered.
- @cptteacher Thanks for your comments back to the students. They will be happily surprised to be getting comments from outside school.
- @pstratton08 Exactly my thoughts. And I think that knowing your work is going to be on display encourages students to find good photos.
